Pleasure Reid is all of us
Pleasure-Ann Reid, the beloved host of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” was let go by that community, and her present was canceled. However make no mistake; Reid wasn’t the one one canceled. All of Black World was proven the door. Reid was that uncommon cable information host who reported on the information as if she was conversing along with her girlfriends and homies on the spot. She spoke in a language acquainted to us all as a result of she was saying on TV what we had been saying in our properties and on our telephones. And never solely that. Not like different reveals on MSNBC, CNN, Fox, and so forth., Reid and her crew of producers selected visitors that represented the vast, broad and deep variety of this nation. In different phrases, Reid had all of us on her present as visitors, talking our good, various minds on points. She refused to suit into that confining, restrictive field of cookie-cutter whitebread reporters. Reid was all the time her full, genuine self—as we’d all wish to be. And for that, she was canceled (and all of us along with her) by folks who colonized our “rhythm” and triggered us the “blues.” Right here’s an concept: let’s assist ourselves by going all in on supporting Black-owned media the place now we have the liberty to be who we actually are.
Banana within the tailpipe
Like Eddie Murphy warned in his film “Beverly Hills Cop,” we shouldn’t “fall for the banana within the tailpipe.” In different phrases, don’t be fooled by foolishness. However that’s precisely what’s taking place proper now. Trump provided federal staff the chance to give up their jobs now with the promise of getting paid (for not working) by way of September. However lots of who took that banana of their tailpipe and give up, came upon 1) they’re not getting paid, 2) they’ll’t get their jobs again and three) they’ve misplaced their retirement advantages. But, there are nonetheless members of Black World who imagine something this “Grifter-in-Chief” says. Trump is now promising $5,000 DOGE “stimi-checks” to be paid out “a while” in 2026.. though Trump has for years bragged that his primary enterprise technique is promising to pay folks, then refusing to pay them. What in our Black minds makes us assume this dude who lives for getting over on individuals, is all of the sudden going to ship on his phrase? Oh yeah, and any potential funding for these wishful stimi-checks will come from the lots of of hundreds of important staff Trump and President Musk fired, and the funding they minimize from Title 1 faculties, Headstart, SNAP, medical analysis, HBCU scholarships, and different issues important to youngsters, single dad and mom, seniors, the disabled, and extra. Trump and crew are banking on Black individuals being as silly and ignorant as they imagine us to be.
White tears
One of many greatest trending matters on all social media platforms is the hundreds of posts being shared by white and off-white Donald Trump supporters who at the moment are regretting their November votes. Why the remorse? As a result of they’re discovering out that every one these merciless and weird Mission 2025 marketing campaign guarantees Trump made loud and clear for over a yr at the moment are being enacted. And so they’re not simply destroying the lives and livelihoods of Black and Brown individuals like they thought and voted for. Trump’s guarantees (now insurance policies) are destroying the very foundations of white life. They’re discovering out that it wasn’t superior white intelligence or work ethic or morals that allowed them to thrive. Fairly, it was government-subsidized white privilege within the type of all these authorities packages and insurance policies they had been advised solely went to undeserving, lazy Black individuals. So, now that their Title 1 jobs aren’t any extra, and the subsidies that financed their farms are gone, and the funding for his or her father or mother’s healthcare staff is being redirected to gazillionaires, they’re crying a river of white tears. Let me share all of the phrases of empathy I’ve for many who voted towards Black individuals: boo-hoo.
